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We Need A Labour Government More Now Than Ever Before; Vote On Policy, Not Personality, For A Better Britain!

Take a glance at the results of the local election results today and you’d be forgiven for thinking Labour have next to no chance of winning on June 8th. However, it’s not that simple. General Election polling had the Labour party a good 25 percentage points behind the Conservatives, a gap that would be almost impossible to close in time. The results of the local elections, though, show that Labour is in fact only 11% behind. With Theresa May on apparent self-destruct, following the most tightly-controlled, stage-managed campaign trail possible the gap suddenly doesn’t look so devastating. We have a month to catch up and Theresa May seems capable only of rocking the Brexit boat in order to look tough ahead of negotiations, something that the public will catch on to as being, basically, self-sabotage.

Her dreadful performance so far aside, has anyone actually heard any of the Conservative party’s policies going into this election? Labour has released dozens of fully-costed progressive policies that will ease the harm already done to this country by the Tories. We never seem to hear much of them of course, because the media is more concerned with catching politicians out, tripping them up for a snappy soundbite on the 6 o’clock news than actually reporting what the parties are promising. That means it is up to us to spread the word and steer the conversation away from tired personal abuse and toward policy. After all, it’s the policies we’ll be feeling the effects of for years to come, good or bad. It has to be about the policies.

So here are just a few of the fully-costed policies put forward by the Labour party in recent weeks. Please take a moment to read them and think to yourself ‘will this benefit me, my loved ones and the least-fortunate in my area?’

License and fine “rogue” landlords who refuse upkeep to their properties

Introduce £160m Pupil Arts Premium to support disadvantaged children in the Arts

Restore Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for poorer pupils

Bring back maintenance grants for university students

Introduce safe staffing levels for nurses, resulting in a safer NHS

Restore the Nurses’ Bursary

Halt the tender of NHS contracts to the private sector, saving £1bn a year

Put VAT on Independent Schools, bringing in £1.2bn a year

Reverse Capital Gains tax cuts

A full rundown of Labour policies going into this General Election will be available in the Labour Party Manifesto 2017; you can download this document soon from the Labour party website.

I find it hard to believe that there is anything listed above that anyone could object to! When it comes to progressive policies for the many, not the few the Labour party is lightyears ahead of any of the other parties. Forget personalities – it doesn’t matter if you dislike Jeremy Corbyn; if you’d rather a Labour government to a Tory one, there’s only one real choice! – when you vote on June 8th please do so based on policy!

And if this is the first time you’ve seen these policies then please spread the word! Make sure that those around you know that Labour is offering real change that will benefit us all, while the Tories are promising nothing at all, except more hurt. Do you really think our NHS can survive another five years of Tory rule? I certainly do not. So there’s only one thing we can do to assure things change for the better and that’s VOTE LABOUR!